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The Fat App Thesis: An Inflection Point in Value Accrual
Ethereum’s mempool or an L2s sequencer in determining how transactions are ordered and included into blocks...Intent-aware sequencing: Apps can define the rules by which user intents are interpreted and batched into blocks...Currently, 90% of Ethereum blocks are now proposed via MEV-Boost, with a significant portion processed...
43 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
ZKsync & The Elastic Network Endgame
Soft Confirmations are produced The sequencer orders all submitted transactions bundling them into L2 blocks...Block Building The L2 blocks are significantly smaller, containing fewer transactions, than the L1 blocks...Due to their smaller size, L2 blocks are processed much faster, with ZKsync generating one every second...
39 Min
Infrastructure
Jan 2025
The Year Ahead for Infra 2025
They can come to consensus individually and share blocks async....Snarkification of execution means that builders create blocks inside zkVMs and proofs of blocks are verified...of blocks for parallel consensus on them....witness generation, which takes the processing capacity of VPUs to nearly 50Mhz (current state of the art...
128 Min
Infrastructure
Dec 2024
Fuel Network: Engineered Playground For The Next Generation Of Apps
Real-World Assets (RWAs) The path to tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs) like real estate, bonds, or art...A hook checks the clock and blocks transfers outside that window unless you’re using a trusted clearing...
30 Min
Infrastructure
Apr 2025
Celestia's Roadmap: $TIA Time, or is DA a Commodity?
, lazybridging… It’s basically Ethereum’s five-year roadmap, but live today: Short block times, big blocks...: While current blocks are capped well below 1GB, the long-term roadmap targets 1GB blocks....Celestia, in contrast, plans to push out 1GB blocks, even if they’re filled with spam.
47 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
Story Protocol: Does IP Need a Chain?
Ghibli-fication and the Implications of AI Art As GPT-4o’s newly upgraded image generation sparks both...While many users have enthusiastically embraced GPT-4o’s ability to imitate distinctive art styles (like...recreations of Ghibli’s style, echoing founder Hayao Miyazaki’s longstanding rejection of AI-generated art...
24 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
zkVerify Memo: Integration Flow, Potential Markets, and Token Economics
...result, the entire repository of internet data becomes accessible and composable – creating building blocks...Validators contributing to the network will receive the transaction fees for the blocks they produce...
22 Min
Infrastructure
Apr 2025
Sui Network: Demystifying the Monolithic Contender
These blocks connect to earlier blocks, creating a web of interconnected transactions....Rather than batching transactions into certified blocks, validators propose uncertified blocks in each...Programmable Transaction Blocks – PTB PTB, or Programmable Transaction Blocks on Sui, is a developer...reference blocks directly.
43 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Dec 2024
Restaking Games: Chasing for Yield
The protocol as a whole reaches a consensus on how the blocks should be constructed and how and what...The state tracks a chain of blocks for each unique domain identifier (aka namespace)....If someone were to bid 10 individually for one rollup, the bundle of blocks between both will not be...the same as if the blocks are being sequenced by their centralized sequencer. ...
53 Min
Staking
Nov 2024
Aptos: Infrastructure for the Financial Internet
...separating transaction stages and re-organizing them into pipelines, Aptos gets increased throughput as more blocks...Aptos has recently created blocks in as quick as 130-150 milliseconds, which is perhaps an industry leading...This is possible because: Pipelined consensus reduces the time between consecutive blocks and also processes...
30 Min
Infrastructure
Apr 2025
The Year Ahead for AI + DePIN 2025
The leading labs are all sitting on unreleased models that promise to push the state of the art next...My framework for valuing AI agents is a bit of a cross between tokenized art and traditional “creator...It fails to become “art”....Agent influencers will ramp this by an order of magnitude, making intellectual connections, art, social...
122 Min
Artificial Intelligence
Dec 2024
Initia: Fulfilling The Appchain Vision
These validators can publish oracle data directly within blocks, allowing on-chain apps to use the chain...The protocol as a whole reaches a consensus on how the blocks should be built and what type of the MEV...
31 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Feb 2025
USD.AI: Financing the Future of AI Infra
One potential scenario could see a loan taken out against state-of-the-art chips right before a new chip...
14 Min
Infrastructure
May 2025
Sui's Q1 Wrapped: BitcoinFi, MEV, and Scaling
Every transfer hits shared state, which blocks parallelism and ties composability to contract-specific...Full nodes will be able to subscribe to consensus blocks directly, giving them sub-200ms latency access...
13 Min
Infrastructure
Apr 2025
Disruptors - Grass Demo Hour
...with all scraping being demand-driven Residential IP addresses allow Grass to bypass rate limits and blocks...specific moments in video content System extracts frames from videos, embeds them using state-of-the-art...
3 Min
Artificial Intelligence
Mar 2025
Exploring Base's Role in the Growing Onchain Economy
This includes things like real estate, art, and commodities....initiative, a program designed to celebrate and showcase onchain innovation – including for music, art...Wallet since Inception (June 2024) Launched in June 2024, the Coinbase smart wallet is a state-of-the-art...
35 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Nov 2024
Plasma: Stablecoin Infrastructure & The Trillion Dollar Opportunity
Validators vote on proposed blocks, and once a quorum is reached, these votes are aggregated into a QC...checkpoint) where a snapshot of its chain’s state is taken (specifically, a Merkle root of recent finalized blocks...Each block in Plasma is logically divided into these two sub-blocks.
28 Min
Infrastructure
Jun 2025
MegaETH: Performance to Compete With TradFi
The sequencer executes transactions first before ordering and packing them in blocks....This means arbitrarily large transactions can use whatever compute they need and get packed into blocks...A network of Prover nodes receive individual blocks from the sequencer, re-execute the transactions and...
21 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Jan 2025
Shortcuts To Scale: How Enso Seeks To Reshape dApp Development
...once required specialized knowledge and significant development resources into accessible building blocks...Enso Network utilizes two fundamental building blocks in the creation and settlement of user intents:...’s foundation, publishing standardized smart contract abstractions that form the network’s building blocks...
31 Min
Infrastructure
May 2025
Falling Upwards
The one who keeps pulling blocks from the bottom, stacking them higher, laughing every time the tower...The one who keeps pulling blocks from the bottom, stacking them higher, laughing every tim...
5 Min
Macro & Markets
May 2025